conditions in the context of other framework conditions for innovation. In Germany, there is a diversity of overall well …-funded technology-neutral and technology-specific programs providing grants to R&D and innovation projects. Different types of SMEs … access public funding for R&D and innovation activities to varying degrees. Using an extensive sample of 2,700 German SMEs …

Innovation is increasingly seen as a collective action which involves many different actors operating in a cluster … important tool to study innovation, but the globalisation of companies and markets and the specific requirements of innovation … and virtual cluster links improves access to essential resources in innovation. An examples taken from the automotive …

. Though concentrating solar power is receiving growing interest, innovation studies so far have explored innovative activity … more activity - a pattern closely resembling the R&D support path. R&D and innovation are concentrated in few high …-tech countries - such as the U.S. or Germany. Large CSP potential is not a sufficient condition for innovation, only developed …

and R&D support measures, and we survey the industrial actors they can encourage to pursue innovation. While deployment … innovation incentives, and R&D support has been comparatively weak. The paper concludes with a discussion of the opportunities … for global policy coordination. -- Photovoltaics ; Technology Policy ; Innovation ; Investment Support …

We analyze the link between R&D, innovation, and productivity in MSMEs with a special focus on micro firms with fewer … the probability of reporting innovation, with a larger effect size for product than for process innovations. Moreover …, micro firms benefit in a comparable way from innovation processes as larger firms, as they are similarly able to increase …

We use the prolonged Greek crisis as a case study to understand how a lasting economic shock affects the innovation … strategies of firms in economies with moderate innovation activities. Adopting the 3-stage CDM model, we explore the link between … R&D, innovation, and productivity for different size groups of Greek manufacturing firms during the prolonged crisis. At …

), allows for causal interpretation of the relationship between innovation output and labor productivity. We find that knowledge … intensive services benefit from innovation activities in the sense that these activities causally increase their labor …

procurement, particularly when mediated by the demand-pull effect, may lower a company’s funding constraints for innovation. We …

particular emphasis on product quality, innovation and skills. The firm-level case studies support the conclusions arising from … and innovation arising from UK R&D is of a high but, compared to their German counterparts, UK firms often fail to …

-use in newly constructed buildings and how it induces innovation in the residential-building industry. The data used consists …